"Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichÃ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology."

-- Alan Clark

#Work Quotes #Apology Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.”
“I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.”
“Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.”
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
“They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.”
“The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.”

Source : Max Atkinson (2005). “Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations”, p.14, Oxford University Press
“Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

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